9-letter words containing a, d, p, c
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clodpated — stupid
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.
- compassed — Simple past tense and past participle of compass.
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- comprador — (formerly in China and some other Asian countries) a native agent of a foreign enterprise
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- dapatical — (obsolete) sumptuous in cheer.
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- decapodal — (zoology) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decoupage — the art or process of decorating a surface with shapes or illustrations cut from paper, card, etc
- depascent — Consuming.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- deschamps — Émile (French emil), full name Émile Deschamps de Saint-Armand. 1791–1871, French poet, dramatist, and librettist: a leading figure in the French romantic movement
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- digraphic — Of or pertaining to a digraph.
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- disk pack — a cylinder containing several magnetic disks that can be installed in or removed from a disk drive as a unit: used for data storage and retrieval.
- displaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displace.
- docu-soap — a television documentary series in which the lives of the people filmed are presented as entertainment or drama